Battle of El Uvero

The Battle of El Uvero occurred on 28 May 1957, during the Cuban Revolution. In the first major action of the war, 26th of July Movement leader Fidel Castro led 127 revolutionaries in an attack on the El Uvero army barracks, hoping to win a major propaganda victory against the government. The rebels assaulted the garrison from the open, and it took two hours and forty-five minutes for the revolutionaries to capture El Uvero. The battle was a victory for the revolutionaries, inspiring many Cubans to join the revolution.